[Info-vax] The Future of Programming Languages and Web browsers

[Arne Vajhøj]

Tom Wade wrote:
>> I've never been a BASIC fan.  Not enough typing for me, no pointers, 
>> not enough control over data structure layout, etc.  With all the 
>> better languages around, I just amazed folks are still trying to bolt 
>> stuff onto the side of BASIC.  Whatever floats your boat.
> 
> Wouldn't be my first choice either, but at least it uses standard VMS 
> string descriptors, is reasonably readable and doesn't suffer from the 
> fetish of case sensitivity, unlike a certain other popular spawn-of-unix 
> language that must be one of the ugliest things ever unleashed upon the 
> programming world.
> 
> There are far worse things than Basic out there.

Basic's problem is not so much the language but more the
"Mort" label.

Arne